CVE-2018-6971 Information disclosure in Horizon View Agent
Low-privileged users can read credentials from log files if a different account is used during Horizon View Agent installation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2018-6971?
CVE-2018-6971 is a high-severity vulnerability in VMware Horizon View Agent, published on 25 Jul 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
VMware Horizon View Agents (7.x.x before 7.5.1) contain a local information disclosure vulnerability due to insecure logging of credentials in the vmmsi.log file when an account other than the currently logged on user is specified during installation (including silent installations). Successful exploitation of this issue may allow low privileged users access to the credentials specified during the Horizon View Agent installation.
Weakness: CWE-532
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-6971?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Vmware Horizon View Agents.
How do I fix CVE-2018-6971?
No fix has been published for CVE-2018-6971 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2018-6971 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-6971 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-h9j3-9qh7-j5xq.